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I can't argue with that.When a few people suggested Scooter as a captain option last year, I made the comment that he might want to prove he's got a place at this level consistently before we make such idiotic calls. And my opinion hasn't much changed. He's had one really good half year of footy, and not much else. He can't be in the same centre square combo as Priddis, and we fundamentally looked much worse with him in the midfield setup today. What is his role going forward? He's poor down back, he's poor up forward, as an attacking midfielder he offers significantly less than Yeo as a full timer and less than Duggan and Lecca as part timers. He's been a lousy tagger for a while now, but even if he wasn't, he can't be justified a place in that centre square as a tagger when it fundamentally ****s with the efficiency of our midfield unit.
What role does he have in our team?
I was hoping he was going to be subbed instead of Nelson. In fact, that was another poor coaching decision from Simpson. As I sad earlier, we desperately needed Yeo back in the middle in the last, with Lecca probably as well. Keeping Nelson on and subbing Selwood would've made it a lot easier to keep Yeo in the middle (it should have happened anyway), and we would've been covered down back. I hope Simpson doesn't fall back to such overly-devensive, conservative tactics in the future.
While we were without him, I didn't think we missed him.
Now that he's back, I'm even more certain that we didn't miss him.
Nothing against the guy at all, and there's no denying what he gave us over the years, but I no longer think he's in our best 22, and when it comes down to a close call between him and someone else, I'd prefer to look to the future with our selection.